sacramental

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Recent Examples of sacramental That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics. Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024 The priest and the child have spent time alone together, and after one meeting Donald returned to Sister James’s class acting strange, his breath redolent of sacramental wine. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 The law allows adults ages 21 and older to possess up to 2 ounces of marijuana, a half-ounce of cannabis concentrate and 1 ounce of products such as edibles for recreational, sacramental and other uses. Dánica Coto, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024 Those who remained on Shelter Island to look for scallops were the hard core, the romantics and the purists, for whom a fallow winter turns the search for scallops into something like a sacramental rite. Christopher Maag, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sacramental
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacramental
Adjective
  • In the Roman Catholic Church, popes have shown openness to evolution while insisting that the human soul is a divine creation.
    Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • The 2024 Best of Beauty-winning Rosemary Hair Duo has our hearts for its breakage-reducing peptide and ceramide formula, plant proteins (from rice, jojoba, quinoa, potato, and pea, to be exact) married with one of the most divine scents available.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Some of those details are in opposition to one another – the ancient and the modern, the religious and the secular -particularly in Riyadh.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 May 2025
  • The Nazis’ demonization of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as political opponents, led to the Holocaust.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • Until her late 20s, Isabella had never even considered a consecrated life.
    Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
  • However, the oil miraculously burned for eight days until new consecrated oil could be found.
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In the days since Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, amid the mourning, marveling at the ecclesiastical opulence, and the reveling in what felt like the Catholic Super Bowl, the divine mystique of the whole affair has drawn the world in.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 May 2025
  • Fox taught that the Inner Light emancipates a person from adherence to any creed, ecclesiastical authority or ritual forms.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • There is some irony that the lawmakers working on the bill with preliminary votes on both Saturday and Sunday, the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath, violated the commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
  • The march commemorates Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem, including the Old City and its holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 Mideast war.
    Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • As neoliberalism took hold, the market moved into the space once occupied by the sacred and the social.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Wilson notes that, in Black cultures, there traditionally is no separation between the sacred and the secular.
    Essence, Essence, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Reforming Popes of the 11th and 12th centuries, beginning with Leo IX and culminating with Innocent III, addressed the ecclesial crises of their day.
    Case Thorp, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
  • During the latter half of the century, the Brazilian Catholic church shifted its approach from one that centered on elites and favored the status quo to one that promoted social justice and ecclesial and political action on behalf of the poor.
    Chayenne Polimédio, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2019
Adjective
  • States, for their part, were entrusted with full control over public K-12 curricula, while private schools and colleges were considered sacrosanct.
    Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Lamar had watched Williams do the crip walk, a West Coast dance move that originated with first-generation members of the Crips, a Los Angeles gang, on the supposedly sacrosanct Wimbledon surface after winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 16 Apr. 2025

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